50 simply arranged, must-know works by Bach, Brahms, Handel, Tchaikovsky and more for violin! The book includes piano accompaniment and a separate pull-out part for violin. Selections include: The Blue Danube Waltz (Johann Strauss II) • Canon in D (Johann Pachelbel) • Dona Nobis Pacem (traditional) • Evening Prayer (Engelbert Humperdinck) • He Shall Feed His Flock (George Frideric Handel) • Jupiter Chorale (Gustav Holsts) • Ode to Joy (Ludwig van Beethoven) • Pomp and Circumstance (Edward Elgar) • Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach) • Swan Lake (Theme) (Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky) • To a Wild Rose (Edward MacDowell) • and many more.
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Solo arrangements of 14 well-known melodies are featured in this collection for beginning instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks! Songs include: All of Me • Evermore • Hallelujah • Happy • I Gotta Feeling • I'm Yours • Lava • Rolling in the Deep • Viva la Vida • You Raise Me Up • and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book, created for beginners at the fiddle, gives a clear introduction to the foundational aspects of learning and playing folk fiddle, using a variety of tune types such as polkas, jigs, reels, hornpipes and waltzes.
Common ornaments and techniques are covered throughout the book, as well as some general principles of bowing in folk music. The tunes used in the book are mostly from the Irish folk tradition, but also included are tunes from Scotland, England, America, Canada and Europe.
Highly regarded fiddle player and bestseller author Chris Haigh guides you through the book, beginning with the simplest folk tunes, and progressing to the more challenging tunes towards the end. More and more bowing detail and ornamentation is included as you work through the book. Every tune is available as an audio download on the accompanying mp3-pack, played at a slow to medium tempo.
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The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.
Demonstration and accompaniment audio resources are available online for all volumes in the series. Each title is available in two editions - a standalone string book for students or an expanded edition with additional piano accompaniment.
Stepping Stones is the first volume within the series. The book offers a collection of twenty-six simple pieces for beginners. Open strings, first finger notes and simple rhythms are introduced.
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| List | $16.99 |
The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.
Demonstration and accompaniment audio resources are available online for all volumes in the series. Each title is available in two editions - a standalone string book for students or an expanded edition with additional piano accompaniment.
The 26 pieces of Waggon Wheels form the second volume of the series. They cover 3rd and 4th finger notes and slurred bowing.
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20 top contemporary pop songs are included in melody line format in these folios, along with audio demonstration and backing tracks for each song available for download. Songs include: All of Me • Jar of Hearts • Just Give Me a Reason • Last Friday Night • Let It Go • Say Something • A Sky Full of Stars • Someone Like You • Titanium • 22 • What Makes You Beautiful • and more.
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Violin Junior is a fun and creative violin method for children from the age of 5 years upwards. The repertoire covers a wide range of styles from classical music to folk, world and popular music. Join Fiocco the Frog in this new approach and find out just how much fun playing the violin can be!
Lesson Books include many duets for two students to play together as well as imaginative technical, aural, rhythm, and improvisation exercises. Piano and violin accompaniments are available for the Lesson Books.
Theory Books cover fun games and creative exercises on music reading, music writing, aural training, composition, and music theory.
Concert Books provide additional repertoire and enjoyable concert pieces.
Audio tracks (full version and play-along mp3s) are available for the Lesson Books, Theory Books and Concert Books. Tutorial videos are also available with technical and musical advice on many of the pieces and exercises in the Lesson Books. Additional online materials round off the method.
The series will be continued (5 levels).
Please visit www.violin-junior.com
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The Grade by Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.
Carefully selected by Liz Partridge, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 2 violinist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.
Each volume contains:
–a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
–grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
–brand new sight-reading, music-theory and improvisation activities
–newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
–a piano accompaniment booklet
–Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.
Liz Partridge is an experienced performer and teacher. She began her career as a quartet player and with ensembles at the BBC and the English National Opera before taking up the position of Sub-Principal First Violin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As a freelance player she has performed in concert halls, theatres and recording studios around the world. She currently performs freelance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As a teacher, Liz regularly coaches and mentors individuals and ensembles of all ages and abilities. Her teaching experience informed her work as an examiner for Trinity College London and now as a festival adjudicator.
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| List | $21.99 |
The Grade by Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.
Carefully selected by Liz Partridge, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 1 violinist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.
Each volume contains:
–a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
–grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
–brand new sight-reading, music-theory and improvisation activities
–newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
–a piano accompaniment booklet
–Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.
Liz Partridge is an experienced performer and teacher. She began her career as a quartet player and with ensembles at the BBC and the English National Opera before taking up the position of Sub-Principal First Violin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As a freelance player she has performed in concert halls, theatres and recording studios around the world. She currently performs freelance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As a teacher, Liz regularly coaches and mentors individuals and ensembles of all ages and abilities. Her teaching experience informed her work as an examiner for Trinity College London and now as a festival adjudicator.
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| List | $21.99 |
Solo arrangements for 8 tunes from the 2019 sequel to Disney's mega-hit movie Frozen are featured in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: All Is Found • Into the Unknown • Lost in the Woods • The Next Right Thing • Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People (Cont.) • Show Yourself • Some Things Never Change • When I Am Older.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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| List | $14.99 |
The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.
Book includes demonstration and accompniment audio tracks accessed online.
Stepping Stones is the first volume within the series. The book offers a collection of twenty-six simple pieces for beginners. Open strings, first finger notes and simple rhythms are introduced.
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| List | $23.99 |
Violin Junior is a fun and creative violin method for children from the age of 5 years upwards. The repertoire covers a wide range of styles from classical music to folk, to world and popular music. Join Fiocco the Frog in this new approach and find out just how much fun playing the violin can be!
Lesson Books include many duets for two students to play together as well as imaginative technical, aural, rhythm, and improvisation exercises. Piano and violin accompaniments are available for the Lesson Books.
Theory Books cover fun games and creative exercises on music reading, music writing, aural training, composition, and music theory.
Concert Books provide additional repertoire and enjoyable concert pieces.
Audio tracks (full version and play-along mp3s) are available for the Lesson Books, Theory Books and Concert Books. Tutorial videos are also available with technical and musical advice on many of the pieces and exercises in the Lesson Books. Additional online materials round off the method.
The series will be continued (5 levels).
Please visit www.violin-junior.com
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| List | $16.99 |
This visually appealing and easy to follow fiddle and violin method covers everything you need to play beginning tunes in an easy to understand, step-by-step fashion that is perfect for students, parents and teachers. This colorful resource includes:
• Beginning tunes in a graduated format with exercises and explanations that will have you playing in no time
• Coverage of important concepts including posture, tone, intonation, and how to structure practice time
“Shamma has done a beautiful job of combining years of teaching experience with her own mastery on the fiddle to present an effective method of instruction. This book is also well laid out and easy to follow and my own kids love the cute characters throughout its pages!”–Natalie MacMaster
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| List | $14.99 |
The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.
Fast Forward, the third volume within the series, is a collection of twenty-one pieces that explore 0-12-3-4 and 0-1-2-34 finger patterns. New rhythms and compound time are introduced, along with a wider range of expression marks and some varied bowings.
Recordings of the piano accompaniments are also available online.
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| List | $19.99 |
The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.
Each title is available in two editions - one with a CD of demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks, and another with a piano accompaniment booklet plus access to downloadable audio resources.
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| List | $21.99 |